Baker v. Baker, Eccles & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Baker v. Baker, Eccles & Co. (1917), Dorrance's Estate (1932)
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is one thing to grant letters of administration and another very different thing to determine the place of the intestate’s residence for the purpose of affecting the devolution of his estate. The granting of letters of administration alone would not in any manner affect the devolution of his estate or determine the distributees or the shares to which they were entitled. The administrator would merely hold the estate in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled to the estate, with the duty of turning the estate over to such persons when their right was established and in the time and manner provided by the Tennessee law. So that the mother of Charles Baker could not and does not . complain of so much of the Tennessee county court judgment as granted letters of administration upon his estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.